Protect All DOES IT ALL!
Tony Colombini

We've all been there. A Car-Show on a bright summer day, either in Historic downtown or at the Community Park. Chrome, Paint, Rubber, Glass, SOUL. The cars are displayed with such pride that you feel the soul of the person who put their sweat in such magnificent hardware.

Well, I was there. I was putting another shine on my '56 with the usual "enter family name here'" spray on detailer and noticed how much build-up I was getting. "The car hasn't seen a hose since it was painted," said the previous owner. Not to break with tradition, I am holding strong with the "no-hose" ethic. So I aptly apply a squirt here and there. And streaks were all I got. The next day, frustrated, swearing not to hose down the car and clean it with a good solvent, when I remembered this blue can that I picked up at the Harley dealer.

I sprayed a small amount (nervously) on the caked-up hood and wiped it with a micro-fiber towel and the deep black shone through immediately. Protect All is one of those products, which claims to do everything. I don't usually get suckered into those deals, but the vision of the Harley dealer, spraying it on my bike, when I picked it up gave me a bit of re-assurance. This product works GREAT! Not only does it have carnauba wax – which gives it a remarkable shine and smoothness – it has a cleaner, which safely removed all the build-up on my whip. My boy and I use it religiously on our '53 F-100, '56 Fairlane and our '04 Harleys. It cleans and polishes EVERY surface, leather bags, rubber tires, chrome bumpers, painted body panels, aluminum, and even glass! We have been using it for almost a year and there is no build-up because each application cleans the layer beneath.

I called the factory which makes Protect All and found it to be a small shop close-by in Anaheim, CA. With a brief tour, Ken Neuman, VP Sales & Marketing, told me a bit more about some of their other products. Protect All came from modest beginnings as an idea that Adam Huber had at his first company Pacific Petrochem. Adam and his partner sold the company to Valvoline where he stayed on to manage the Specialty Products Division. In 1976 he bought the SPD from Valvoline and founded Champions Choice, Inc. One of the company's largest markets has been the motorcycle industry. Pleasure rides and racers, alike have experienced the quality of Champions Choice lubricants and ProtectAll care products for more than 40 years.

After the tour Ken showed me some of the other products that they make. An all purpose household cleaner (Protect All Shine Plus), a concentrated wash product (Quick & Easy Wash) which you do not have to rinse. He told me that all you have to do is add two capfuls to each gallon of water and wring out a cloth or sponge in the bucket wipe the car or bike, and follow-it up with a dry towel. No pre-rinse or rinsing needed. We used it on our bikes and it gets all the road grunge off effortlessly. They even make a small knife sharpener (Quick & Easy Knife Sharpener). Like all of their products each one is made with the best materials to last a long-long time.

"It may be more expensive for a bottle of Protect All, (we bought ours for $10.00 a spray can at the Harley dealer) but you only need to use a little bit" says Ken. In fact he told me a story about a guy who called their hotline and said the product wasn't coming off his car. He rubbed vigorously with a towel that got soaked with the product. In amazement, Ken had him go step by step into how he applied it and the guy said: "I unscrewed the trigger cap and poured about half a bottle on my hood…" Ken realized right there that people don't like to read the instructions. "Only spray a light mist across a body panel at a 45€ angle. Gently wipe with one micro-fiber cloth and follow-up with a clean micro-fiber cloth to make it shine."

Quality, Integrity, Trust and Fairness is the command at Protect All. If you don't like the product, simply call their hotline, ask for Ken, or any of the other friendly staff and they will help you with it, even if it means sending you your money back.

You can contact Protect All from their website at:
www.ProtectAll.com - or -
Call them at: 800-322-4491 and tell them you heard about it at Car-Shows.com!